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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818906003321

Autore

Flower Harriet I

Titolo

The art of forgetting : disgrace and oblivion in Roman political culture / / Harriet I. Flower

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

0-8078-7746-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiv, 400 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Studies in the history of Greece and Rome

Disciplina

937

Soggetti

Memory - Political aspects - Rome - History

Memory - Social aspects - Rome - History

Punishment - Rome - History

Rome History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-389) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER I: Clementis' Hat: The Politics of Memory Sanctions and the Shape of Forgetting; PART I: THE ROMAN REPUBLIC AND GREEK PRECEDENTS; CHAPTER II: Did the Greeks Have Memory Sanctions?; CHAPTER III: The Origins of Memory Sanctions in Roman Political Culture; CHAPTER IV: Punitive Memory Sanctions I: The Breakdown of the Republican Consensus; CHAPTER V: Punitive Memory Sanctions II: The Republic of Sulla; PART II: THE PRINCIPATE FROM OCTAVIAN TO ANTONINUS PIUS; CHAPTER VI: Memory Games: Disgrace and Rehabilitation in the Early Principate

CHAPTER VII: Public Sanctions against Women: A Julio-Claudian Innovation; CHAPTER VIII: The Memory of Nero, imperator scaenicus; CHAPTER IX: The Shadow of Domitian and the Limits of Disgrace; CHAPTER X: Conclusion: Roman Memory Spaces; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Provides the chronological overview of the development of the Roman practice - an instruction to forget - from archaic times into the second century CE. This book explores Roman memory sanctions against the background of Greek and Hellenistic cultural influence and in the context of the wider Mediterranean world.